Benefits of using shared queues
The major benefits of operating in a shared-queues environment are automatic workload balancing, incremental growth, and increased reliability.
The following list explains how shared queues provides these benefits:
- Automatic workload balancing
- A message that is placed on a shared queue can be processed by any participating IMS that is available to process work.
- Incremental growth
- You can add new IMS systems as workload increases.
- Increased reliability
- If one IMS fails, work that is placed on a shared queue can still be processed by other IMS systems.
Recommendations:
- Use generic resource groups with shared queues.
- Share all data in an IMSplex across the IMSplex.